We Need Labels!!!
June 29, 2009

We need lables for those little “issues” men face like ear top hair, skin growths that appear over night, and anything else you can think of.

Help me, Obe Dad Kenobi, your my only hope.

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  1. Glen in Texas
    Jun 26, 10:07 AM

    A typical Sniglet: The random hairs of dubious color that appear in unusual locations can be referred to as, ‘frostels’, which are not to be confused with the grey or white walrus-whiskers called, ‘frostlets’.

  2. S.A.M.
    Jun 26, 10:19 AM

    The strange skin growths that have to be removed by doctors are called, “Lop-it-off-of-me“s.

  3. Rich
    Jun 26, 10:29 AM

    Wildbrow Weeds – those impossibly long eyebrow hairs that appear overnight.

  4. Duane
    Jun 26, 10:37 AM

    I refer to my overly endowed pectoral muscles as “chesticles.”

  5. Gearhead
    Jun 26, 10:39 AM

    I don’t have any catchy names, but I share your frustration. I thought as I got older I was losing my hair, only to discover that it was actually moving from my forehead to my nose and ears. Ugggghhhhh. And I’m pretty sure it is easier for everyone else to see those pesky little hairs in all the wrong places than it is for me. Adds a whole new level of complication to personal grooming.

  6. Paul Stackhouse
    Jun 26, 11:21 AM

    What about those hairs that grow out of moles, skin tags or other blemishes. They seem to grow faster, darker and coarser than other hair anywhere near it.

    I think these should be called: Rogue Über-whiskers

  7. Bob H - AKA - Daddio
    Jun 26, 11:47 AM

    I have a theory concerning the random growth of ear hair, nose hair, back hair and hair on your backside. It it thus: as we age, we get tired, every fiber and follicle weakens, hair I believe sprouts deep within our core and marches toward our heads, later in life some weaker hairs only manage to climb as high as our face,ears and nose. Soon it is our upper backs, then the love handles get flocked and sadly for some the buttocks. Eventually we become a carpet of “faillicles”, the hairs that failed to rise up. It’s a theory

  8. treebird
    Jun 26, 12:08 PM

    All I know is that “hard of hairing” needs to be part of the naming discussion. Carry on.

  9. Steve Spangler
    Jun 26, 12:09 PM

    I always wanted to grow my nose hair long enough to be able to braid it into dreadlocks.

    it’s either that or have my nose and ears waxed or lasered.

  10. Pat
    Jun 26, 03:02 PM

    re: little tags of skin that appear out of nowhere.
    My skin doctor refers to them as ‘barnacles’

  11. Bryon
    Jun 26, 03:09 PM

    My ears seem to have a mind of their own and try to sport a new “eardo”.

  12. D. Zarling
    Jun 26, 08:48 PM

    As an older guy, who just learned to `double click’ a few years ago; I’ve been confronted on my job with controllers for chemical feed systems that are anything but `user friendly’ . More than once I’ve deleted a program, pumped more chemical into a cooling tower than necessary, fed zero product for over a month, all because I didn’t understand the directions as written by a foreign national of unspecified origin etc. As a result, I’ve come to the point where if it was feeding `OK’, I didn’t mess with it; but referred the issue to a junior salesman. The term to describe an unwillingness to mess with a controller is “ELECTRONIC RETICENCE”

  13. Greg Parker
    Jun 28, 07:02 PM

    this 54 %% in a month!) ‘geezer’ has ‘been there, done that’ and might go back if it’s the right time in the right way.

  14. Seth
    Jul 2, 05:58 PM

    So few people have heard of Sniglets and it’s good to know it sounds like Glen in Texas has the book! I think a good name for the ear hairs that grow at the top of the ear lobe is flairs, a deviation of the word flare, as in flare gun which is used to send a distress signal (as in, I’m distressed that the hair on my head isn’t growing but my flairs are).

  15. Tony K.
    Jul 2, 10:30 PM

    I don’t have any catchy names for my ear hair but I do tend to puff out my chest when my wife refers to me as “Goat Boy”.

  16. David T.
    Jul 6, 10:52 PM

    Skin tags…my wife calls em gipples. It’s like a gimpy little nipple. Hence a GIPPLE.

  17. Wojo
    Jul 8, 09:44 AM

    Ear top hair? How about Buckwheats…..named after the Little Rascal. Or Don King’s. I think you get the picture.

    Skin growths? Why not dingleberries?

    The worst part of all these issues is that when we get these little issues, usually along comes grandchildren. And they are going to see these issues and remember them for the rest of their lives. Once we are long gone, those little grandchildren are going to grow up, get married and some day tell their spouse “My grandpa had this tuft of hair on top of his ears that looked like mini-mohawks”. Is THIS how we want to be remembered????

  18. Mark
    Apr 8, 08:12 PM

    I have recently started to have to shave my nose. A few hairs have started growing ON my nose. Not in, those are prolific enough, but ON! Gives whole new meaning to “nose hairs”